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Synonyms for piercingly in English

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piercingly:
- piercingly; shrilly; bitter; bitingly; bitterly
piercing:
- penetrating; shrill; piercing; rasping; dire; grinding; keen; cutting; lancinating; knifelike; stabbing; lancinate; sharp; acute; incisive; penetrative; discriminating
- cutting; intersection; section; piercing

English

Detailed Synonyms for piercingly in English

piercingly:

piercingly adv

piercingly

– in a shrill voice ¹
piercingly; shrilly
– in a shrill voice ¹
- piercingly adv
- shrilly adv
  - she sang rather shrilly¹
piercingly

– extremely and sharply ¹
bitter; bitingly; bitterly; piercingly
– extremely and sharply ¹
- bitter adv
  - bitter cold¹
- bitingly adv
- bitterly adv
  - it was bitterly cold¹
- piercingly adv

Alternate Synonyms for "piercingly":

bitterly; bitingly; bitter
shrilly

Related Definitions for "piercingly":

in a shrill voice¹
extremely and sharply¹

piercing:

piercing adj

piercing
penetrating; shrill; piercing; rasping
- penetrating adj
- shrill adj
- piercing adj
- rasping adj
piercing
penetrating; piercing
- penetrating adj
- piercing adj
piercing
dire; grinding; piercing
- dire adj
- grinding adj
- piercing adj
piercing

– painful as if caused by a sharp instrument ¹
keen; cutting; piercing; lancinating; knifelike; stabbing; lancinate
– painful as if caused by a sharp instrument ¹
- keen adj
  - keen winds¹
- cutting adj
  - a cutting wind¹
- piercing adj
  - piercing knifelike pains¹
  - piercing cold¹
  - piercing criticism¹
- lancinating adj
  - lancinating pain¹
- knifelike adj
  - knifelike cold¹
  - piercing knifelike pains¹
- stabbing adj
  - a stabbing pain¹
- lancinate adj
piercing

– having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions ¹
keen; sharp; acute; piercing; penetrating; incisive; penetrative; discriminating; knifelike
– having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions ¹
- keen adj
- sharp adj
  - as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang¹
- acute adj
  - an acute observer of politics and politicians¹
- piercing adj
- penetrating adj
  - penetrating insight¹
- incisive adj
  - incisive comments¹
  - as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang¹
- penetrative adj
  - frequent penetrative observations¹
- discriminating adj
- knifelike adj
  - icy knifelike reasoning¹

piercing [the ~] noun

the piercing
the cutting; the intersection; the section; the piercing
- cutting [the ~] noun
- intersection [the ~] noun
- section [the ~] noun
- piercing [the ~] noun

Related Words for "piercing":

piercings, piercingly, pierce

Alternate Synonyms for "piercing":

acute; discriminating; incisive; keen; knifelike; penetrating; penetrative; sharp; perceptive
shrill; high; high-pitched
cutting; stabbing; lancinate; lancinating; sharp
cacophonous; cacophonic

Related Definitions for "piercing":

painful as if caused by a sharp instrument¹
- piercing knifelike pains¹
- piercing cold¹
- piercing criticism¹
having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions¹

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University